Bøger af Melissa Broder

From acclaimed poet and creator of the popular twitter account @SoSadToday comes the darkly funny and brutally honest collection of essays that Roxane Gay called "e;sad and uncomfortable and their own kind of gorgeous."e;Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In SO SAD TODAY, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. With insights as sharp as her humor, Broder explores--in prose that is both ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic--questions most of us are afraid to even acknowledge, let alone answer, in order to discover what it really means to be a person in this modern world.

Lucy er på niende år i gang med at skrive sin Ph.d.-afhandling, da hun og hendes kæreste slår op, og alting synes at kæntre. Lucy bliver hyret som hundesitter i Los Angeles hen over sommeren, og selvom det ellers lyder som den perfekte tilflugt, kan Lucy ikke undslippe sin angst i hverken de lækre omgivelser, det græske kor af kvinder i hendes terapigruppe for kærlighedsafhængige eller hendes mange Tinderdates.Lucy rives imidlertid væk fra virkelighedens latterlige selverkendelse, da hun bliver fortryllet af en smuk svømmer, som hun falder i snak med, da hun sidder alene på stranden en sen aften. Mødet med svømmeren vender op og ned på Lucys opfattelse af kærlighed, og hun indser endeligt, at den lykkelige Hollywoodkærlighed måske slet ikke findes.

Rachel er en 24-årig kvinde, som har skiftet jødedommen ud med kalorietælling som sin nye religion. Om dagen opretholder hun illusionen om kontrol gennem maniske ritualer. Om natten stavrer hun ingen steder hen på sin travemaskine. Da Rachel møder Miriam – en ung ortodoks jødisk kvinde, der sætter det som sin mission at fodre Rachel – fascineres og forelskes Rachel med det samme i hende. Hun fascineres af hendes krop, hendes tro og hendes familie – og relationen mellem de to kvinder starter en rejse i Rachel, som formes af spejle, mysticisme, mødre, mælk og honning.

"In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow--for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike. Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant"--

'Riotously original ... A triumph' New York Times'A journey unlike any you've read before' Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, author of Chain-Gang All-Stars'There is deep wisdom in these pages' Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, YesThe most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow - for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike.Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.PRAISE FOR THE PISCES'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON'Frank, provocative and brilliant' INDEPENDENT'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' ELLE'Laugh-out-loud funny' i

Named a Best Book of the Month by NYLON, Bustle, Alta, and Pittsburgh City Paper "Each line is a little heartbeat hurling down the abyss." --Patricia Lockwood